At COMDEX recently, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive, but would run on only five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9. Every time a new car was introduced, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again, because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. Oh yeah, and last but not least . . . you'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off!
2006-06-29 02:55:27
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answered by Andrew W 3
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That is a strange question. I guess you could, in a way. A person would not really be able to build and egine or the major compnents of a car unless they melted down and machined the metal but that would take a whole lot of computers! haha. what a person could do though is maybe sauter or use comething like bondo to stick the circut boards on the outside of the car.
2006-06-29 02:56:20
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answered by rugbyfree 3
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In theory yes, but not directly.
The components of a computer could be separately recycled and used as Feedstock for the components of new cars and then assembled.
What you tend to find though is one type of product is recycled to make the same sort of product again and again (closed loop recycling).
2006-06-29 03:07:32
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answered by 'Dr Greene' 7
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Yes, if you work at it..
Remove all the computer parts and sell them or recycle
You can make money by picking up computers from biz -
'they pay you to remove them' - then you tear them down - List them on a website $$$
NOW Go buy a car
2006-06-29 02:57:57
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answered by captbryguy 5
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The possibility of (anything) happening is there (if someone can think of it someone can invent it) BUT the probability is rather low. But then a few foreign cars make their bodies from old recycled beer cans so maybe you can invent something?
2006-07-05 17:14:47
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answered by teasinglittlebrat 3
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no problem Lada did it for years, a few old computer parts, an old sideboard, contents of a skip or two, bluetak,a bit of fishing line and lo & behold the Riva was born
2006-07-02 09:52:50
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answered by Anonymous
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I'm not sure, but presently I am working on a car made of bellybutton lint. I'll let you know how it turns out.
2006-06-29 16:34:18
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answered by yenkoman1969 3
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you can make anything you want, if you have the time and know how, i decorated a bedroom wall for a teenage boy with old motherboards....awsome, looked real high tech.
2006-06-29 02:56:38
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answered by Anonymous
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If you could, you would be a genius, but you are not, so you must be an idiot - the answer is NO
2006-06-29 03:03:27
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answered by Jeff J 4
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yes
2006-06-29 02:57:25
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answered by Sid 1
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